Publication Plan

Title: Beat

Frequency of publication: fortnightly

Positioning statement: bringing you the best of pop

Price: £2.50

Distribution: newsagents, supermarkets, online, record shops and concerts.

Rationale: the magazine will be from the fans perspective. It will involve interviews from pop music concerts and with successful artists. The interview will focus on what the fans want to find out about the artists.  

Style: Informal. The magazine is for all pop music fans and will use vocabulary that is easy for the audience to read. I’ll use simple short paragraphs so the audience can understand.

Images:

Regular content:

·        Interviews with new artists

·        Future superstars (changes each month)

·        Monthly column LMFAO

·        Quizzes with different artists

·        Competitions

·        Back stage at concerts

·        Concert dates

·        Reviews on new music

·        Free posters

·        Olly Murs x factor column  

Feature content:

·        Interview with The Wanted

·        On set with Nicole Scherzinger

·        In the studio with Cher Lloyd  

·        Q&A with Beyonce

·        World exclusive interview with Jennifer Lopez

·        Back stage with Lady Gaga at the monster ball tour Madison square garden, New York

·        Interview with one direction fame after the x factor

·        The world of Jessie J

·        Exclusive interview of Katy Perry’s California dreams tour (DPS)

·        Rihanna headlines wireless festival 2012

·        Children in need rocks Manchester exclusive footage and backstage gossip

·        Nicola Roberts on touring alone without girls aloud

·        The Saturdays vs JLS

·        Ed Sheeran on his appearance at radio city live

·        David Guetta vs Calvin Harris who will be number one?

·        Ke$ha on how her new album is based on her ‘get sleazy tour`  

·        Bruno mars on his new song appearing in twilight breaking dawn

·        Jason Derulo hits the UK

·        “Our rise to fame” twins talk straight from the heart about there new fame shot

House style

·        Cover lines: Arial Unicode MS 30pt

·        Headlines: Arial black

·        Stand first: Arial 12pt

·        Captions: Arial 8pt

·        Features first paragraph: drop capital Arial Black 6 lines deep and first word in capital.

·        New first paragraph: first word in bold capital

·        Body text: Arial 11pt

·        Colour scheme: purple and pink and black